06 May 2008

Thanks, Meg.An Illinois man has bought a coffin and customized it so that he will be buried in — seriously — a giant Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can.

As a lover of the PBR, I can understand the inclination. So I'm not judging.

I'm guessing when the man was told that (a) the can-coffin wasn't filled with his favorite beer and (b) the $2,000 it cost him to have built would've bought 571 six-packs of Pabst that he could've enjoyed while he was living, he responded with a great, big, head-slapping "D'oh!"

What the hell...?

So for a lot of years, my day job was as a writer with the Ledger-Enquirer, a fine newspaper based in Columbus, Ga. Spent much of that as a music writer, and the rest of it writing about pop culture and culture at large. I won some awards and stuff. Whatever.